Quotes About Trust

Research shows that arranged marriages last longer, and I wonder if it's down to the fact that it's other people putting you together, like when a family member buys you a gift it's not easy to throw it away, as there's a chance they'll come to visit and ask where it is and get upset when you say you've binned it.

It was The Aeneid that had included the fascinating story of the Trojan Horse. Why anyone would accept a gift from a departing, defeated army had made no sense to her then and still did not. But, again, men had made the decision, probably drunk with their victory. Any woman would look at such a gift and wonder why it had been given, and then have someone quickly dispose of it.

is no greater bane to friendship than adulation, fawning, and flattery.' Cicero.

Trust isn't a gift, Cameron. You earn it, and it's not cheap.

I don't think I'm nuts, though, and I don't think you do, either, but you have to make up your own mind. Nothing works if you don't start there.

Well... they say friends help you move and good friends help you move bodies.

Just because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again.

Marriage is based on a more enduring kind of love.

It was funny because she thought of herself as a good team player, although sometimes she suspected that no one else on her team did.

it was one of those questions you couldn't ask in case he were to tell the truth.

Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.

Bridget wouldn't let Trixie come to Mrs. Dodds's house, she said she would never hear the end of it. "She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

Men make the best friends.